Georgia History Timeline
Chronology for September 29
Yesterday Tomorrow
| September 29, 1526 |
The first colony on mainland America is established by Lucas Vazques de Ayllon. Recent research has led some to believe the location of the settlement to be on Georgia's Sapelo Island
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| September 29, 1948 |
WSB-TV is dedicated. It is the first commercial television station in Georgia. |
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WSB Atlanta |
| September 29, 1950 |
Horace Ward applies to the segregated University of Georgia Law School. |
| September 29, 1954 |
Telephone workers throughout Georgia and the Southeast go on strike.
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| September 29, 1967 |
Carson McCullers dies in Nyack, New York, the result of a brain hemorrhage following a stroke.
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Carson McCullers |
| September 29, 1985 |
Skydiving plane crashes, Jenkinsburg
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Butts County, Georgia |
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Skydiving plane crashes, Jenkinsburg |
| September 29, 1986 |
Designing Women, a fictional TV show set in Atlanta about Julia Sugarbaker (Dixe Carter), Mary Jo Shively (Annie Potts), Suzanne Sugarbaker (Delta Burke) and Alison Sugarbaker (Julia Duffy) airs on CBS.
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Movies filmed in Georgia
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| September 29, 1998 |
OutKast releases Aquemini |
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OutKast |
| September 29, 2003 |
Danny Heatley and Dan Snyder are involved in a high-speed car crash on Lenox Road in Atlanta. Healy and Snyder are members of the Atlanta Thrashers hockey team.
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Atlanta Thrashers |
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